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on 04 October 2018

World Space Week, the largest public event in the world dedicated to the celebration of space, takes place between 4 and 10 October.

63 Romanian cities have responded to the invitation to join the celebrations. They are organising around 100 educational and other outreach activities centred on this year’s theme ”Space Unites the World”.

The United Nations General Assembly declared in 1999 that World Space Week will be held each year during the same period: 4 – 10 October, since these dates commemorate two events: 4 October 1957 - launch of the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, thus opening the way for space exploration and 10 October 1967 - the signing of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.

World Space Week is coordinated by the United Nations with the support of the World Space Week Association (WSWA). The WSWA leads a global team of National Coordinators, who promote the celebration of World Space Week within their own countries. In Romania, the event is coordinated by the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA).

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Sunday, 09 December 2018

In this image the Romanian flag can be seen on the mock-up of an Ariane 6 launcher, at the European Spaceport in French Guiana. In the background, the launching pad is currently being built. The new launcher is due to start operations in 2021.

The President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, and the President of the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), PhD, Dsc Grzegorz Brona, signed a Letter of Intent to enhance cooperation between the two agencies, during a Romanian-Polish Bilateral Meeting in Bucharest, on 14-15 November.

During the first two weeks of November 2018, significant forest fires occurred in the Apuseni region of Romania and in California, USA. The data stream from the Sentinel 2 and 3 satellites of the European Copernicus programme allowed the monitoring of the fire dynamics due to their superior temporal resolution. These images were processed by Terrasigna, a Romanian company with strong background in Earth Observation data processing.